Sven Hüber (born 1964) is an East German former political officer. As such his duties consisted of communist

political indoctrination Indoctrination is the process of inculcating (teaching by repeated instruction) a person or people into an ideology, often avoiding critical analysis. It can refer to a general process of socialization. The term often implies forms of brainwashi ...

and

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. His unit was found by German courts to be responsible for several crimes, including the murder of

Chris Gueffroy Chris Gueffroy (21 June 1968 – 6 February 1989) was the last person to be shot and the second-last to die in an escape attempt while trying to escape from East Berlin to West Berlin across the Berlin Wall. Biography Chris Gueffroy was bo ...

. Today he is chairman of the main personnel council of the

German Federal Police The Federal Police (, , BPOL) is the national and principal Federal police, federal law enforcement agency of the German Federal Government, subordinate to the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community. The Federated Police is meant to be r ...

and holds the rank ''Erster Polizeihauptkommissar''. His subsequent employment as a policeman in reunified Germany has been the subject of fierce criticism and controversy.

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Hüber was born in

Görlitz Görlitz (; ; ; ; ; Lusatian dialects, East Lusatian: , , ) is a town in the Germany, German state of Saxony. It is on the river Lusatian Neisse and is the largest town in Upper Lusatia, the second-largest town in the region of Lusatia after ...

. As a political officer, Hüber was responsible for giving the soldiers political instruction and propaganda. He worked for the Berlin regiment 33 (Treptow). His unit was responsible for the fatal shooting on February 6, 1989 of

, the last person to be shot on the

inner German border The inner German border ( or ''deutsch–deutsche Grenze''; initially also , zonal boundary) was the frontier between the East Germany, German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) and the West Germany, Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, West ...

. Hüber has tried to ban the mention of his name in connection with his work as a political officer and has sued a German historian. His case and the question of how to deal with moral responsibility have been widely discussed in German newspapers. A similar case happened in March 2008, when

Holm Singer Holm Singer (born 23 July 1961 in Reichenbach, East Germany East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until Germa ...

, a former East German Stasi informant who betrayed local church officials under the pseudonym ''IM Schubert'', won a court battle to prevent an exhibition from including his real name and clandestine activities. The interim

injunction An injunction is an equitable remedy in the form of a special court order compelling a party to do or refrain from doing certain acts. It was developed by the English courts of equity but its origins go back to Roman law and the equitable rem ...

was later cancelled, as his name was considered to be of "historical interest".Tino Moritz
“Ex-Pfarrer darf Klarnamen von Stasi-IM nennen”
(''Leipziger Volkszeitung online'', March 24, 2010)

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"Kammergericht stärkt Pressefreiheit"
(''Wikinews'', March 20, 2007) * Roman Grafe

(

University of Trento The University of Trento (Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Trento'') is an Italian university located in Trento and nearby Rovereto. It has been able to achieve considerable results in didactics, research, and international relations accord ...

, April 2006) * Sven Hüber

(''Berliner Zeitung'', May 10, 2004) {{DEFAULTSORT:Huber, Sven 1964 births Living people GDR Border Troops people German police officers National People's Army personnel Communist repression People from Görlitz

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